Tuesday, July 3, 2012
july holiday 2012
We arrived in Durban safely on Monday and I still felt horrible, this flu was so bad I only started feeling better today. Mean while driving up here I was completely pulled apart as I wanted badly to spend time with the boys as they had suffered badly these last few months as both Mario and I had many commitments with church, cricket and work not to mention family things. I still felt pulled apart as my research was just about to fly off as all the students would start their placements and I struggled to get my paper work sort and to contact all the firms in time as the students just were so slow in getting the info to me many of them were still struggling to find two places. I also had a call from fellow teacher about missing marks. It was also the week of my grandmothers bday the one who passed away last year this time so I'm also feeling so emotional. Also , my mom has gone for another set of test and I so wanted to be there for her. Two close friends are also leaving and I never got to spend so going away time with them...
Well, we got here and as I promised the boys there would be no Internet and no cell phone for me to keep me busy, I'm steal this time to check up on every thing and I found that the students are doing great and blogging and face booking like mad such valuable stuff without me having to remind them or lead them to use the blog at all, check my mail and two of the places came back with an ok for me to come and visit in the last week of holidays thats great news, also my mom test went well and she is enjoy her stay with friends, no work emails so I guest the arks were sorted out in the end. Spend some time at the beach today thinking about my MA and feel much stronger. The boys enjoyed the beach....oo about Durban, we staying in this rusty logged cabin in a tree every cool. About 500 meters from the sea so it so my kinda place, so funny how sea and forest live so close together. The Ballito bay were we at is 45 k away from city so it every upmarket holiday and not as Durban as I would like, here no really Durban people...like locals mostly holiday makers and locals who don't care for going into the city at all. So yesterday we got here and hang around the cabin as we were dead tired and I still felt sick. Today we went out exploring and found lovely beaches, the kids all swam but Morgan and I felt bit sick still. But the water looks so nice and the wind blow bait but not like in ct beach were gets nasty, it was every very pleasant. Spend all day there as the kids loved it, then drove around bait exploring and found a surfing competition down the road, some flea markets and took a nice long walk, got back and by 7 the kids were asleep, yes I could not believe it either. Then saw some monkeys that came by the cabin, I read an entered magazine that is so cool in the last 5 years I have to take my mags to work and read it in my office as the kids thinks if I read it's only to them...so relaxed out in the garden and now well you guest it....
Tomorrow we off to the city and Uskaka.....we I just since you are tell me all about your day I suppose it is just fair I do the same....
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What a wonderful time I had last week with my family it was really so needed, last few months just been living past each other, we went up to drubs at Ballito bay we had the surfing competition on and we went to uskaka, totally over priced by my standards, the cape town one had way more things to see in the term of fish and sharks, and play areas for kids. This one in drubs we so limited and if it were not for the shows it would have been a waste of time, the wet and wild seems like the attraction.
ReplyDeleteWhile we drove up it was a nice but it was clear that some parts f this country seem forgotten, we took the back roads and the service delivery is shocking. I totally understand why none capetonians get to cape town and feel the need to protest as in cape town we have some many niceties....I saw school kids walking in rural places and it took us two hours to drive to the school. Some shops had nothing as trucks only come by once a week. The stop and go sections of the roads allowed as to sit and wait and talk to the locals,
So again I just aware of how blessed I am, to be taking a holiday, while others are just battling to get by, trust me it took saving and surcifices to have this holiday but still way more blessed then most people.
We then drove along Bloemfontein and went to visit with friends for the night we then went off to celebrate Mario's birthday gift to see the stormed rock the cheetas and left early in the morning for town. Was so nice to see them after 3 years last.
Got back to ct in the storming rain and windy city just like I like it in July. Was nice to be back home. In the mooring of the 9th of July I left to spend the
week at a writing workshop we I m now, so I'm planing to spend the next week writing up all the data the students of the WILL projects have been so kind in supplying. I'm a little over whelmed some f my own activity theory at play here, I feel intimidated and totally out of my comfort zone, I don't know anyone personally, just people from work I have seen here and there. Every one is clever and reading books and look like they got it together while I am just like trying to work out what to do, I feel a bit like my students at work I think. Ok, so I'm gone miss the boys so much and Mario after the week we had it sucks to leave them . They doing their male bonding thang but still.....ok, I'm gona focus and direct all my effort to my masters work now .....
i miss the boy very much today, so i just got busy and tried my best to stay busy and read and write, im really happy about the progress made, i wrote a paper on time tables and im deep in to my data and literature comparison. I am also have the most insightful talks with peers and at time i really have to stand my group in defending my work, but i feel really blessed to have been given this opportunity im just sorry i could not bring the boys too, they would have loved the farm. I cant believe how must i have learned and how much i am cable of this is really opening my mind to so much, the students that blog all the time and share with me are wonderful, i can't wait to interview then when i get back, i was very disappoint when i was not allowed to go and monitor then in the industry and felt like i was handing them over to the wolfs but they are doing so well on their own, i was worried for nothing. Anyway , keep you all posted on the progress here but know that im pushing , giving it all i can right now ...may not always feel like that but for now im good.
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